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P. MIHAN. v

GAS BURNER AND PIPE PLIERS.

No. 272,573. I Patented Feb .20 ,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PATRICK MIHAN, OF CHELSEA,

nsslenou,Br MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, 'ro

HIMSELF AND JOHN E. MORELAND, OF QUINOY POINT, MASS.

GAS BURNER AND PIPE PLlERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,573, dated February 20, 1883.

Application filed January 2, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PATRICK MIHAN, of Chelsea, in the county of Sufl'olk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a 5 new and useful Improvement in Gas Burner or Pipe Pliers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-- Figure 1 isa front view, Fig.2 a rear view, Fig. 3 an end view, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal and median section, of pliers provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

The pliers are composed of two levers, A A, fulcrurned together or having a common ful cruin, a, each ol'the jaws J being, as usual, provided with a curved and toothed recess, 12, made through it transversely, such being the 20 well-known mode of constructing such pliers.

Besides such recesses in the jaws, Iprovide them with auxiliary curved and toothed recesses arranged in them lengthwiseof them, each of such auxiliary curved and toothed re- 2 5 cesses being shown at c c, and extending from the end of the main recess of its jaw to and through the extreme end of the jaw. These auxiliary recesses will be found to be very con venient, especially with the main recesses, for

and revolving screws or other devices which cannot conveniently he seized by it in its main toothed recesses. Furthermore, I make at the junction of the two jaws one-0r more round holes to lead from one side'of' the implement 5 transversely into it, and to terminate close to its opposite side,'the said holes being shown at d and e. I prefer to have in the jaws two of such holes, in which case the smaller or upper one, 0, opens into the auxiliary toothed re- 40 cesses, and at the opposite side of the implement suchrecesses have or terminate in cutting or sharp edgesf f, which serve to enable the pliers to be used for severing a piece of wire when it is inserted through the hole'eaud be 5 tween the two cutting-edges f, so the jaw parts at the bottom of the hole cl may be used to severe piece of wire when extended between them. Each hole may be either cylindricalor tapering, as may be desirable.

I claim-- -The gas pipe or burner pliers having its jaws provided with toothed recesses. extending through them laterally, as described, and

with cutters for severing wire arranged in ad- 55 Vance of such recesses.

. PATRlOK MIHAN.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY,

o enabling the implement-to he used in grasping E. B. PRATT. 

